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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Bertolt Brecht

He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
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Confusion Humanity Impossible
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre

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